Healthcare is the fastest-growing industry in America, because health affects every facet of all Americans’ lives. People are living longer and longer than before. The lengthier life expectancy is due to advancements in the science and delivery of healthcare. Health communication has been an essential aspect of the delivery of healthcare. Also, health communication makes an impact and influence on healthcare policy and political initiatives, therefore, affects the health and lives of the people. Thus, it is important to understand the health communication’s overview, planning processes, techniques, and methods that affect and influence healthcare policy and political initiatives.
Communications has long been essential part in the healthcare business. It goes back to the mid 1900s when hospital used communications professionals to delivered patient situation reports and release news about the facility. As seen in pharmaceutical corporations, they would employ communication consultants or internal workers to publicize a new drug approval. Now-a-days, healthcare companies also used vast staffs for trademark and corporate communications. Hence, there have been a growing numbers of consulting companies in public relations and medical advertisement due to many new advanced social media. In the addition, as the healthcare communications grow, more health communication specialists are needed. In the last thirty years, more health communication degrees are offered in universities (Hicks & Nicols, 2012).
Through communication, health information can be shared to the public or the individual patient. Health material is transferred by newspaper, television, Internet, radio, flyers, or billboard, etc. Though there is a reduction i...
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...tfeeding. They trained their staffs to educate new mothers about the important of breastfeeding (Mahone, 1996). Also, media campaigns reach and inform pregnant and lactating women and father the important of breastfeeding. The campaigns also reach general public about breastfeeding benefit through using public service announcements on radio, television, and in newspapers, journals, and magazines. From the campaigns, the publics are more aware of advantages of breastfeeding and women are more contented breastfeeding in public (Arias, 2005).
Effective planning processes, techniques, and methods will make a major impact in healthcare policies and political initiatives. Individuals and groups definitely promote the public health through communication. Collaboration among individuals and different media outlets will transpire information throughout the nation.
Communication is cited as a contributing factor in 70% of healthcare mistakes, leading to many initiatives across the healthcare settings to improve the way healthcare professionals communicate. (Kohn, 2000.)
Following that, “Plan Health Education/Promotion” is the second responsibility that health educators must follow—Furthermore, educators must “Involve Priority Populations and Other Stakeholders in the Planning Process”(NCHEC, n.d., p. 2). This requires greater involvement of the population that the plan will impact the most, in addition,
This year I am most excited about learning how to better communicate with children and being able to see how communication changes depending on their stage of development. I’m excited to learn how to accurately take blood pressure and other vital signs like pulse and respiration. As well as, being able to identify any values that are abnormal. I am also eager to learn how to appropriately express these abnormal finds to my young patients without igniting fear.
Healthcare has been a topic of discussion with the majority of the country. Issues with insurance coverage, rising costs, limited options to gain coverage, and the quality of healthcare have become concerns for law makers, healthcare providers and the general public. Some of those concerns were alleviated with the passing of the Affordable Care Act, but new concerns have developed with problems that have occurred in the implementation of the new law. The main concerns of the country are if the Affordable Care Act will be able to overcome the issues that plagued the old healthcare system, the cost of the program, and how will the new law affect the quality of the health delivery system.
McAllister, F. Trede & S. Loftus (Eds.) Communicating in the Health Sciences (3rd ed.). (pp. 299-306). Melbourne: Oxford University Press
Overall, the increase within health care costs is effecting our nation significantly. Not only does it affect consumers but also organization. As it continues to increase everyone is finding themselves unable to pay for such changes. Reducing such growth within the health care costs requires a collaborative, inclusive, and dual-party approach. Strategies for reducing the costs include but not limited to: promoting prevention and healthy living, improving patient safety, and promoting transparency on medical costs and quality. If the nation works on such improvements, hopefully we will be able to turn the health care system into something we can all afford once again.
West, R. L., & Turner, L. H. (2009).Introducing communication theory: Analysis and application . (4 ed., p. 113). McGraw-Hill Medical Publishing.
Discussion surrounding the role of the government in health care has become an American past time. The government is responsible for improving health care quality and safety in the United States which should enhance access to care. Many goals have been sought after since the enactment of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA). Little achievement has been made in regards to which level of government is ultimately responsible for the continued support of health care. This essay will discuss both the state and federal level of government in health care, along with insight into the current happenings of both levels.
Healthcare is a fundamental topic do to the wide range of topics to discuss and concerns that need to be address. Healthcare is forever changing and there are always new studies that show promising results. People who live in larger cities and town tend to have quicker access to better healthcare, also have better control of their health. However, even though our country is one of the leading healthcare providers, there are still people being left behind and have poor health management in our country still in this day, and age. Along with lack of healthcare those same people are facing ethical dilemmas with how well they are being cared for, treated, policies being maintained or enforce, and patient information is being management with in the
Health care is one of the most debated issues in the United States today and it 's necessary to understand the basics of this problem. Approximately 50 million people living in the United
Longest, B. B., Jr. (2010). The context and process of health policymaking. In T. D. McBride (Ed.), Health policy making in the United States (5th ed., pp. 30-33). Chicago, IL: Health Adminstration Press.
The health care system in the United States encompasses so many individuals, businesses, and interest groups. Also, it can be difficult to pinpoint the most optimal approach to serve everyone’s unique needs and wants. This has led to a major health-care crisis in the society. As a matter of fact, the effect of the health-care crisis in the American society has been a longtime situation, and an effective policy response must focus on what is most enriching in the society: aiming to improve the overall quality of the system and positively impact the health status of all citizens, while subsequently minimizing costs.
Some of the reasons for the increase in the cost of health care are: third party payments; imperfect market; technology growth, increase in the number of elderly population; current medical model of health care delivery; multi payer system and administrative cost; defensive medicine. One societal issue that healthcare organizations must respond is the high healthcare cost. The high healthcare cost is the reason of increasing burdens of many Americans. A survey was done by Henry Kaiser Family Foundation and learned that 58 percent of people did not seek treatment that they needed because of the rising healthcare cost (Huff/Post50, 2012). Healthcare organization can help with the issue by supporting their community thru social support, education of preventive benefits, health promotion, health management, counseling, and person centered planning. The second societal issue is the healthcare availability. Disparities in healthcare access remain a problem in America. Healthcare organization can help people in the community thru education and behavioral healthcare. According to Wyland (2014), chronic conditions such as diabetes, obesity, heart disease, and substance use disorders are behaviorally based, necessitating recurring instead of acute intervention to be treated successfully. Educational and community based programs play an important role in preventing disease and injury, improving health, and enhancing quality of life. Everyone have personal responsibility in one’s own health through active participation, education, and lifestyle change (Harkness & DeMarco, 2016). The third issue is the healthcare equity. The reason of gaps in the quality of care is due to the inability of healthcare organizations to integrate improvement measures into the process of care (Mayberry, Nicewander, Qin, & Ballard, 2006). It is important to ensure that care is accessible and
Longest, B., (2010). Health policymaking in the United States. (5th Ed.). Chicago, IL: Health Administration Press.
Communication is one of the foundation stones of clinical governance to ensure HCPs deliver a quality health service it is also one of the 6Cs recently introduced by the NHS referring to Compassion, Care, Communication, Confidence, Competence and Courage (NHS England, 2013 cited in (Ndoro, 2014).